Eat less!! Live longer!

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If you want to live longer, eat less - a whole lot less

WASHINGTON - Scientists have made progress in understanding how eating less leads to a longer life.

Studies in yeast, rodents and other organisms have found that cutting calories drastically extends life span.

In a report in yesterday's edition of the journal Science, United States researchers said studies with fruit flies, which have many genes similar to mammals, showed that an enzyme called Rpd3 histone deacetylase is a likely key to longevity.

With a low-calorie diet, life span was extended by about 41 per cent.

Low-calorie diets produce other benefits aside from longer lives, according to studies in rodents which evaluated the effect of decreasing caloric intake by 20 to 40 per cent.

'Their memory is better, their muscle tone is better, they get fewer cancers, fewer heart problems,' Dr Frankel said.

Even grey hair is delayed.

The hope is that human drugs may be developed to mimic that effect, without having to eat less.

One drug, called phenylbutyrate, is thought to target the Rpd3 enzyme. A study published earlier this year showed that feeding that drug to fruit flies extended their lives.

The study was co-authored by Dr Blanka Rogina and Dr Stephen Helfand of the University of Connecticut Health Centre. --Reuters

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overeatin is the first bidah in islaaam so screw ur scientists.....

[lil_bangladesh_boe]

no matter what u do, u DIE.....whats the point of living say 5 more months more and eat like ur gonna die tomo.........
i eat fast food every day, thats bad, but i dont care.......cause i no i m gonna die, and if i start to suffer later on, i will commit sucide, simple.....

[rose-dat-grew-from-a-concrete]

thats not very good miss little bangladesh wife(boe)

u should not eat alot of fat food/fast food
bad for health...

[Cookie]

yes i fort he was a female too but dat supposed to be boy bruv u know how these americanos are cant even spell there own names..and yall gona die when tis pescribed for u not when the scientists say....